# Heart

#### Introduction

Watch a four-minute video, "[How to Feel Your Heart Beat](https://youtu.be/tF9-jLZNM10)", or 7-minute video, "[How Your Heart Works](https://youtu.be/_eVG45_iF9U)".

#### Activity 1

The heart moves about 5 litres of blood per minute. Have the child use a scoop to move water from one container to the other to see if she can beat a 1-minute timer.

#### Activity 2

People have heart attacks when fat fills up their arteries so blood can't flow through. Practice fractions by using playdough "fat" to block toilet roll "arteries" - half, a third, a quarter, three-quarters, et cetera.

[![image.png](https://wiki.srp.life/uploads/images/gallery/2024-11/scaled-1680-/64bITCEhSSfetEqi-image.png)](https://www.pinayhomeschooler.com/2015/09/how-to-learn-about-human-heart.html)

#### Lunch Snack

The Gaelic word for tomato is "ubhal-chrìdhe", or "heart-apple". Dissect the tomato "heart" by making a salsa (tomatoes, onion, lemon juice, garlic, and a pinch of sugar and pepper) and eating it with corn chips. Finish the meal by making grape "heart" kebabs.

[![image.png](https://wiki.srp.life/uploads/images/gallery/2024-11/scaled-1680-/WHxWcAwXIBiXVcQ9-image.png)](https://wiki.srp.life/uploads/images/gallery/2024-11/WHxWcAwXIBiXVcQ9-image.png)[![image.png](https://wiki.srp.life/uploads/images/gallery/2024-11/scaled-1680-/KjUYQHRw69iyIbNe-image.png)](https://wiki.srp.life/uploads/images/gallery/2024-11/KjUYQHRw69iyIbNe-image.png)

#### Activity 3

Make a [heart pumping simulator](https://www.homesciencetools.com/article/how-to-make-a-heart-pump-science-project/).

[![image.png](https://wiki.srp.life/uploads/images/gallery/2024-11/scaled-1680-/0VcJ2OSvR5RCAq7H-image.png)](https://wiki.srp.life/uploads/images/gallery/2024-11/0VcJ2OSvR5RCAq7H-image.png)